Volume 17, Number 1 · July 22, 1971
There Are Twelve
By Charles Rosen
In response to Art Has Its Reasons
(June 17, 1971)
To the Editors:
In glancing through my copy of Jakobson and Hallé's Fundamentals of Language, which has just been returned to me by a borrower who needed it less than I did, I see that there is an unfortunate error in my article of June 17 ["Art Has Its Reasons"]. Jakobson's phonological system does not have "ten and only ten" differential features, but twelve from which each language makes its selection. May I recommend Fundamentals of Language to other lay readers like myself for its lucidity, concision, and fascination, and hope that they will make a more accurate use of it than I did?
Charles Rosen
New York City
